Full Description
Using the overlooked and seemingly trivial digital practices of scrolling, swiping, and snapping as a vantage point, this ethnography explores how young people in Vienna inhabit digital time and space amid boredom, unemployment, migration, school pressures and fragmented life trajectories. By combining digital and design anthropology, it situates these mundane digital practices within historical continuities and broader societal regimes that value productivity and discipline while negating idleness and practices associated with marginalized populations. Through fieldwork, workshops, and co-design, it reveals how digital devices are entangled with experiences of sociality, waiting, and boredom, offering an alternative to moralizing narratives of "mindless scrolling" and of scrolling through digital worlds.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. (Digital) Inequalities
Chapter 2. Social Choreographies
Chapter 3. Doing Boredom
Chapter 4. Scrolling and Swiping
Chapter 5. Playing and Snapping
Chapter 6. Wasting Time
Chapter 7. (Un)desirable Flâneurs
Chapter 8. Mastery of Space-Time
References
Index
